Postharvest Storage Practices of Maize in Rift Valley and Lower Eastern Regions of Kenya: A Cross-Sectional Study

Table 9

Maize disposal practices in the study sites.

No	Maize disposal practices	Total (n = 314)	Region		X^2	df	value
			Rift Valley (n = 165)	Lower Eastern (n = 149)
1	Participants who took maize from storage for sale in the month of harvest	99 (31.5%)	82 (49.7%)	17 (11.5%)	53.167	1	<0.001
2	Median selling price	2500	2400	3250
3	Quality of grains sold (n = 99)
	Poor	3 (3.0%)	3 (3.7%)	0 (0.0%)	0.864	2	0.642
	Fair	1 (1.0%)	1 (1.2%)	0 (0.0%)
	Good	95 (96.0%)	78 (95.1%)	17 (100.0%)
4	Buyer of the largest sale in the month (n = 93)
	Business people	69 (74.2%)	58 (71.8%)	15 (86.7%)	3.021	3	0.388
	Cereals dealer	6 (6.5%)	8 (7.7%)	0 (0.0%)
	Local consumer	15 (16.1%)	13 (16.7%)	2 (13.3%)
	School	3 (3.2%)	3 (3.8%)	0 (0.0%)
5	Participants who had discoloured, damaged, or mouldy maize in their sale	14 (14.7%)	12 (14.6%)	2 (15.4%)